Display-case mechanism.



T. R. TREIBER. DISPLAY CASE MECHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED APR.13, 1914.

Patented Jan. 5, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 5, 1915.

Application filed April 13, 1914. Serial No. 331,500.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, Tnnooonn R. Tamera, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful improvement in Display- Case Mechanisms, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in display case mechanisms.

The object of my invention is to provide a novel display case mechanism by means of which a plurality of hinged covers may be easily and quickly synchronously swung to the open position to enable a purchaser to remove such goods from the case as he may desire, without the goods being handled by the salesperson.

A further object of my invention is to provide a mechanism by means of which the swinging of the display case covers may be accomplished by the operator by the use of either his hand or foot. 7

Other novel features of my invention are hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view, partly broken away, of my improved mechanism. Fig. 2 is an enlarged horizontal section on the line 22 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is an enlarged end elevation, partly broken away, in which the covers are shown in dotted and solid lines in the open and closed positions respectively. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view on the line el i of Fig. 2.

Similar reference characters designate similar parts in the different views.

The case is provided, preferably, with double end walls, 1 being the inner and 2 the outer walls. The plurality of shelves 3 and risers 4, Fig. 4, are arranged in step relation, the shelves at their forward edges being supported respectively upon horizontal angle plates 5, which in turn are supported upon the upper edges of the risers 4 respectively. F ixed vertical plates 6, preferably transparent, are supported respectively by the angle plates 5 at the front of the shelves 3.

The covers comprise each a transparent plate 7 mounted at its ends, Fig. 1, in grooves provided in the inner sides of the arms of a horizontally disposed lJ-shaped frame 8 provided at opposite ends with crank arms 9, which are vertically disposed when the covers are in the horizontal closed position. The frames 8 are each pivoted at their opposite ends to plates 10, which are secured to the outer sides of the inner walls 1. Pivoted at one set of ends to the crank arms 9 are links 11 Each set of links 11 is pivoted to an operating bar 12, which at its rear end is provided with a handle 18. Each operating bar 12 is secured to guiding members 14:, 15 and 16 which are respectively vertically slidable between vertical parallel guiding strips 17, 18 and 19. To the lower ends of the guiding members 16 are secured respectively pedals 20, by means of which, if desired, the covers may be swung to the open position by pressure applied by the foot upon the upper side of either of the pedals 20, or the covers may be swung to the open and closed positions by means of the handles 13.

The shelves 3 are adapted to support cigar boxes 21 having hinged lids 22 to which are respectively secured screw eyes 23, through which are adapted to extend the forward free ends of forwardly and rearwardly extending arms 24, the rear ends of which are respectively secured to blocks 25, which are longitudinally slidable on a transverse angle bar 26 secured to the under side of the ad jacent U-shaped member 8, and disposed parallel with the axes of the covers.

When the handles or pedals 20 are forced downwardly, the bars 12 will move bodily downwardly in right lines and without changing their positions relatively to the horizontal and the perpendicular, thereby swinging the covers to the raised position, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3 through the intermediacy of the links 11. When the covers are raised or lowered, the lids 22 of the cigar boxes 21 will be also raised and lowered.

I do not limit my invention to the structure shown and described, as modifications, within the scope of the appended claims, may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A display case mechanism comprising a hinged cover, vertically movable operating means provided with a handle and a pedal below the handle, and a link having its ends tion to another, said pivoted respectively to said cover and to said operating means.

2. A'display case mechanism comprising hinged covers, links having one set of ends pivoted respectively thereto, a connecting bar pivoted to the other set of ends of said links, guiding members secured to said connecting bar at two points, and parallel guiding means for said guiding members respectively.

3. A display case mechanism comprising hinged covers, links respectively pivoted thereto, a connecting bar pivoted to said links, and including an operating handle, and guiding means by which said bar, when bodily moved from one position to another, will retain the same relation to the horizontal and to the perpendicular.

44 A displav case mechanism comprising hinged covers having horizontal axes, links pivotally connected respectively to said covers, a connecting bar pivoted to said links, and guiding means by which said bar may be vertically bodily moved from one posipositions being in planes parallel with each other.

5. A display case mechanism comprising hinged covers having horizontal axes, links pivotally connected respectively to said covers, a connecting bar pivoted to said links, vertical guides, and guiding members connected to said bar and vertically movable respectively in said guides. I

6. Adisplay case mechanism comprising hinged covers, links respectively pivoted thereto, an operating bar pivoted to said links and having a handle, guiding members secured to said bar, and guiding means by which said guiding members, when moved, will move in right lines.

7 A display case mechanism comprising hinged covers, links respectively pivoted thereto, an operating bar pivoted to said links, a movable guiding device, and means by which said device, when moved, will move in right lines.

8. A display case mechanism comprising hinged covers, links respectively pivoted thereto, an operating bar pivoted to said links, guiding members secured to said bar, one member having a pedal, and guides in which said members are respectively slidable.

9. A display case mechanism comprising hinged covers, links respectively pivoted thereto, an operating bar pivoted to said links, guiding members secured to said bar, one having a pedal, and parallel guides for said members respectively.

10. A display case mechanism comprising hinged covers, two sets of links pivoted respectively to said covers at opposite ends thereof, two bars respectively pivoted to said two sets of links, and two sets of guiding means for said bars respectively by which, when said bars are moved from one position to another, they will retain the same relation to the horizontal and to the perpendicular.

11. A display case mechanism comprising hinged covers, two sets of links pivoted respectively to said covers at opposite ends thereof, two bars pivoted respectively to said two sets of links, two sets of guiding members respectively secured to said bars, and two guiding means for said two sets of guiding members by which said members when moved will move in right lines.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THEODORE R. TREIBER.

Witnesses WARREN D. I-Iousn, E. B. House.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C." 

